GANG MEMBER ARRESTED IN KILLING OF 17-YEAR-OLD IN OCEANSIDE, POLICE SAY

OCEANSIDE A 16-year-old gang member has been arrested in the fatal shooting Sunday of 17-year-old Antonio Carachuri-Perez, police said Thursday.

The boy was initially taken into custody on Wednesday in connection with an armed robbery that police said occurred nearby minutes before Antonio was killed on the porch of his aunt’s home on Grant Street in the Crown Heights neighborhood.

The boy is suspected of stealing jewelry and electronics from another youth, Oceanside police Lt. Joe Young said.

Young said there is no evidence that Antonio and the suspect knew each other.

Antonio’s mother said earlier that her son, an Oceanside High School senior, was not in a gang and was known as the boy who sold flowers and homemade ice cream.

Police do not believe the case is related to the nonfatal shooting two weeks ago of a 20-year-old soccer coach in front of Crown Heights Resource Center.

ASHLY MCGLONE • U-T

Second suspect arrested in robbery, stabbing in Escondido

ESCONDIDO A second man sought as a suspect in a robbery and stabbing Wednesday night was arrested Thursday, police said.David Solomon Ballard, 27, was taken into custody by police officers who were dispatched to investigate a report of a petty theft shortly before 2 p.m. on West Felicita Avenue near South Centre City Parkway, Escondido police Lt. Chris Wynn said.The other suspect, Michael Lawrence Rathbun, 22, of San Marcos, was arrested Wednesday night near the crime scene.Police found the injured man about 10 p.m. on West Vermont Avenue off South Escondido Boulevard. He was hospitalized in critical but stable condition.Wynn said Thursday that the suspects and victim appeared to have “some level of acquaintance.”

21-year-old shot, killed outside liquor store in Chula Vista

Officers were called to Bo Bar Market on F Street near Broadway about 9 p.m., where they found the victim suffering from two gunshot wounds, police said.

The victim, Jimmy Rodriguez Jr. of Chula Vista, died about an hour later at a hospital, the Medical Examiner’s Office said.

Chula Vista police Capt. Gary Wedge said Thursday that the two men had been arguing inside the store and then went outside. The suspect fled and was being sought.

SUSAN SCHRODER & ASHLY MCGLONE • U-T

Police look into failed attempt to drag woman into canyon at UCSD

LA JOLLA Police at the University of California San Diego are investigating an attempted kidnapping Wednesday night near a student housing area.

The incident was reported about 8 p.m. near One Miramar Street apartments, which is near a canyon in the area of Interstate 5 and La Jolla Village Drive. UCSD police told 10News, a media partner of U-T San Diego, that a man grabbed a woman from behind and tried to pull her into the canyon. When he was unsuccessful, he ran away.

The man was described only as about 6 feet tall, and having light-colored hair and a thin build. He was wearing a black baseball cap and dark hooded sweatshirt. No other information was released by UCSD on Thursday.